extensions toolbar cannot be deactivated
Good morning,
In Iceweasel 38.01 I cannot permanently deactivate the extensions toolbar. There is not a single button on it and the option from the context-menu operates normally. But the toolbar reappears each time upon starting up the browser. I cannot locate a second configuration- or customization option, nor the pertinent help-text, if there is one, which allowed me to permanently get rid of the useless toolbar.
Thank you for any hints.
Alla svar (9)
It is possible to Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings, however you may find more help in the iceweasal/ Debian forums.
Is this toolbar present here?
- "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
- View > Toolbars
Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar - Right-click empty toolbar area
Can you attach a screenshot?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
- Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot
- Make sure that you do not exceed the maximum size of 1 MB
guigs2 said
It is possible to Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings, however you may find more help in the iceweasal/ Debian forums.
This worked for the moment after the refresh. As after restart the browser-window is configured not any differently than before, I have to ask, if a profile-setting should be taken into consideration for the reset-procedure..?
cor-el said
Is this toolbar present here?
- "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
No.
- View > Toolbars
Yes. This menu identical to the lower part of the context-menu.
- Right-click empty toolbar area
Yes. See my original message, above.
Can you attach a screenshot?
Click the URLs for bigger images :
http://pix.toile-libre.org/?img=1434437834.png
http://pix.toile-libre.org/?img=1434437991.png
Missed a third screen shot. Here it is.
You can't hide that toolbar via the View > Toolbars menu?
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
cor-el said
You can't hide that toolbar via the View > Toolbars menu?
Yes I can and always could. But upon restarting the browser, the empty extension bar is always there.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
In Safe Mode, the extension bar is not displayed and does also not appear neither in the view-, nor in the context-menu.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
Did that. The extension toolbar is still showing, each time, that I start the browser, irrespective of the state that I left it in (extension bar disabled or not) or the fact that I quit the browser in safe mode.
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
Iceweasel may be different from the ordinary Firefox release in that it does not even show a Reset button on that dialog.
Sorry. The extension bar is still taking up space while being completely useless. But I can live with that for the time.
Also, I forgot to add, that by disabling extensions one by one and restarting with the extensions toolbar disabled, it is showing again anyway. I cannot identify a single extension which would be responsible for this misbehavior.
It also looks like this was a past work around, however I am not an expert in the iceweasel builds: